JulyPA Salutes Hotel Amarillo

Every July Pizzeria Paradiso honors craft beer’s most popular style: IPA.

This year’s celebration is different because one of the IPAs on offer is a commercial batch of the winning recipe from Pizzeria Paradiso’s inaugural homebrew competition. With over 40 entrants submitting their hoppy offerings, I was lucky enough to steward this competition along with Paradiso’s Executive Beverage Director Drew McCormick, who masterminded the operation.

Tim Ryan won the homebrew competition with Hotel Amarillo. The name for the beer originates with a song by one of Ryan’s favorite Virginia-born singer-songwriters, Caroline Spence. The beer’s recipe also featured Amarillo hops and thusly the name was born. Per Ryan’s entry form for his homebrewed batch: “hazy, lots of fruity and orange-juicy character, low bitterness, with a soft and creamy mouthfeel. This one is almost all Amarillo, but Mosaic and Falconer’s Flight check into the Hotel Amarillo during a second dry hop.”

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